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better than a kick in the teeth
vs
better than a poke in the eye with a burnt stick
better than a kick in the teeth
adj
Better than nothing.
better than a poke in the eye with a burnt stick
How often have the words
better than a kick in the teeth
and
better than a poke in the eye with a burnt stick
occurred in a corpus of books?
(source:
Google Ngram Viewer
)